Upholstering apparatus



L. B. SMITH. UPHOLSTERING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE I8, 1919.

Patented June 29, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUTON BAXTER sivirrii, OFliIIGI-I POINT, NORTH CAROLINA.

"UPI-IOLSTERING APPARATUS.

High Point, in the county of Guilford and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Upholstering Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toapparatus for use in upholstering furniture. One of its objects is to provide a structure which is simple and eflicient and. which can be applied easily to a chair orthe like for the purpose of holding the seat springs under compression while the fabric is being tacked in place.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which can be adjusted for use in connection with chairs of different proportions.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described. and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus.

Fig, 2 is a plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates a base in the form of a hollow square or the like and upstanding from this base are converging standards 2 to the upper ends of which is secured a head strip 4 provided on its upper surface with a dovetail rib 55. Slides 6 are mounted on the strip 4 and have dovetail grooves 7 into which the rib 5 projects. A longitudinally extending series of notches 8 is provided in the top of the strip 4 and anyone of these notches is adapted to receive a holding latch 9 attached to one of the slides to fasten it against longitudinal movement.

Each of the slides has an opening 10extending therethrough from end to end, and

mounted in the outer end portion of each opening 10 are spools 11 on which is mounts ed a rope 12 provided at one end with a book 13. This rope extends from the hook over one of the spools 11, and then through the openings10'in the slides 6. The rope is then looped over the spools at the outer end of the other slide, the loop, shown at 14, be-

Application filed June 1s, 1919. Serial No. 305,087.

ingin engagement with a pulley 15 carried by the shank 16 of a hook 17. From the loop 14 the rope is extended back through the openings 10 in the slides 6 and beyond theouter end of the slide from which the hook 13 is suspended.

A press-board 18 is attached to the base 1 in any manner desired, as by means of buttons l9. v

In using the apparatus the burlap or other material used above the springs in the chair seat is placed in position and the board 18, after'being attached to the base 1 is placed on the burlap and above the springs. Hook 13 is then placed in engagement with the bottom surface of one side of the chair seat frame after which the other hook 17 is drawn downwardly into an engagement with the other side of the frame of the seat. The loose end of the rope is then pulled so that the distance between the hooks and the slides 6 will be reduced and the board 18 thrust downwardly so as to hold the springs under compression, The rope can be fastened in any manner desired, as by means of thus held over the compressed springs, the

fabric can be tacked to the sides of the seat frame. By loosening the rope the appara- Specification of Letters a n Patented June 29, 1920.

tus can be quickly removed after which a filling can be placed on the burlap, the cover of the seat placed over the filling, the apparatus again applied as before, and the cover tacked in place. It has been found. in practice that where a first class workman has heretofore been able to upholster an average of four sets of-furniture in a day by methods commonly employed, he can, by the aid of the apparatus desired, turn out no less than five sets in the same time.

As the hooks 13 and 17 are connected in ropes, they can be attached to the seat frame at any places desired in order to properly distribute the pressure to the springs.

-What is claimed is 1. Upholstering apparatus. including a base, a flexible member forming a loop, a furniture engaging element supported by the loop, a furniture engaging element supported by one end of the flexible member, means for supporting the flexible member above the base, one end of said member being movable to simultaneously shift the furniture engaging elements relative to the base; r

2. The combination with a base, of slides adjustably mounted above and connected to the base, a flexible member supported by the slides, furniture engagingelements support-o ed by the said member and below the slides,

said flexible memberbeing shiftable by pull- -ing on one end thereof to simultaneously move the furnitureengaging elements relative to the slides.

3. The combination with a base, a head strip, and a connection between the base and" head strip, of oppositely extending members, and flexible means for supporting said elements one end of said means being shiftable .to simultaneously move the elements relative to the head strip. a

l. The combination With a base and standards thereon. of a head strip mounted on the standards, oppositely extending slides, a flexible member extending through the slides andhaving its terminals depending from one of the slides, there being 'a loop depending from the other slide, furniture engaging elementssupported by the base, means for holding exible member exloop and one of the terminals, respectively,"

the other terminal constituting means shift able to simultaneously move' the furniture loop depending from: the outer end of the opposite slide, and furniture engagingelements supported by the loop and one ofthe terminals, respectively. 7

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my'ovvn, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

LUTON BAXTER- SMITH.

Witnesses: 7 l

' 'THOS. J GOLD,

W. R. MORROW. V

5; The combination with a base and a 

